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...Bevan's voice there were echoes of sad Welsh valleys as he said slowly: "I am a miner." Then, louder: "I was brought up in a mining family in a mining area and a steel area." Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of the Giants | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Saxophone & Type. A onetime coal-miner, logger, ranch hand, construction worker and saxophone player, Tennessee-born Will Harrison broke into journalism in Gallup, N. Mex., where he was stranded in 1932. He worked without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First 100 Years | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Saxophone & Type. A onetime coal-miner, logger, ranch hand, construction worker and saxophone player, Tennessee-born Will Harrison broke into journalism in Gallup, N. Mex., where he was stranded in 1932. He worked without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First 100 Years | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Bolivia's Roman Catholic clergy tends to regard such activity as an intrusion into its vineyard. Many an Indian miner has been told that the Protestants are "messengers of the devil"; more sophisticated Bolivians have been warned that the evangelistas are advance agents of Yankee imperialism. From the sowing of such seed came evil fruit last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Murder in the Vineyard | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Because of his hazardous work, a miner cannot afford the cost of sky-high life insurance. The U.M.W. fund, reported Miss Roche, paid out $5,500,000 since mid-1948 to nearly 32,000 survivors of miners who died or were killed (an average of $174 per beneficiary). Another $64 million went into disability and assistance grants, $30 million for the miners' $100-a-month pension program, and $5,000,000 for health and medical services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I'm Awful Thankful | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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